[quote=poorgradstudent]In general, one data point is meaningless, two is worth investigating, and three makes a trend.

That said, I don’t really care, because Cain is a terrible Presidential candidate anyways. 9-9-9 is a huge tax increase and wealth redistribution plan, stealing from the poor and giving to corporations. Cain has no coherent policy on social issues; he had a rational moderate stance on abortion that he flipped on when he realized it wouldn’t fly with Republican primary voters.

By all means, if you want 4 more years of Obama (which I do, for the record), nominate Cain. He has the potential to get thrashed worse than Mondale did. He reminds me a lot of Sharon Angle, the woman largely responsible for Harry Reid holding his senate seat.[/quote]

I haven’t been following the elections heavily, but Cain doesn’t look too strong. I’m definitely not a tax the rich guy as a solution to all that ills the world. Being a small business owner myself that has hustled and been frugal my whole life to create a good life, I just hate to see a big chunk of my money get sucked into the inefficient Government waste machine. I’ve always liked the idea of the flat tax. I do not like to DIS-incentivise financial success but taxing the crap out of people that achieve financial success.

But I would really love to see a REAL business person get the presidency (George W. was not a REAL self-made business person and Arnold was an actor, not a real biz person). Just like I was hoping a businesswomen (Meg Whitman) would have won the CA governorship vs. the career bureaucrat that won. No more lawyers and career bureaucrats that have never had real jobs outside of politics. I like to see someone that has had the responsibility of employing people in the private sector, running a company, innovating, running a balance sheet, etc… I have always wanted to see Micheal Bloomberg run.

And I’m an independent, I’m not on the right or the left. And I am not an Obama hater, I actually think he is OK.